March 2008
119 posts
Convincing Pickup Line →
Aggressive strategy could make Apple sell 45... →
“Producing a penny costs about 1.7 cents, and the Treasury’s annual penny deficit...”
– Ste(v|ph)en at the Freakonomics weblog
There's absolutely NO consensus the question which... →
Lazy or lame programmers use txt2re.com for their... →
Facebook vs Asia's Top Social Networks →
One of my co-presenters at this month’s Media 08 event in Sydney was Benjamin Joffe, Managing Director at Asia Internet consultancy +8* and Co-Founder of MobileMonday Beijing. At Media 08…
Byron Ng: Not A Hacker, Just Good With Media →
Byron Ng made a name for himself this week by publicizing Facebook photos of Paris Hilton found through a loophole in the social network. Last year he made a name for himself by for…
Anti-Koran Film Posted Online, Crashes Site →
I told you Sunday that Network Solutions shut down a web site created to host the 15-minute anti-Koran film “Fitna,” made by Dutch politician Geert Wilder. So Wilder posted “Fitna” on …
The Future of Free: T-SHirts →
Proper update coming tomorrow. In the meantime, a comic: —— (Thanks to Peter Kohan for the find)
Great design: The airplane bathroom lock and light... →
About 3 hours into my flight it dawned on me. I had to take a leak. I wasn’t expecting a rendezvous with great design, but there it was in the most unlikely of places. The airplane lavatory (and, …
The dark side →
Snapnames informs me that the most competitive domain name up for auction this week is breastenlargementhypnosis.com. Think about that one for a bit. So much effort is going to be spent building…
Facebook Security Hole Reveals Paris Hilton at... →
Think twice before posting that photojournal of your last trip to Scores on Facebook. Byron Ng, a Vancouver computer technician, discovered a loophole in the site’s security that allowed…
M&A and Sex →
There is a heretofore unexamined connection between big league corporate mergers & acquisitions and sex. Read on for Feedburner founder Dick Costolo’s perspective today: M&A works in much the…
The 25 Most Valuable Blogs →
While we’ve been working hard on our 25 Most Valuable Startups list, the folks at 24/7 Wall Street have created a list of the 25 Most Valuable Blogs.
Blog valuation is obviously not a…
Chart du Jour: Credit Cards by Country →
Chart of the day is a nice one from Foreign Policy comparing the number of credit cards per person, per country around the world:
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a...”
– Albert Einstein
Evening News. They Still Do That? →
Some eye-opening data showing the multi-decade collapse in viewership for evening network TV news. About the only surprise, at least for those of us that haven’t watch such programming in ages, is…
Sort of, just and Donald Trump →
I noticed a little while ago that I was using the word “just” and the phrase “sort of” in my writing. All the time, in fact. In my last book, a search and replace removed more than 80 unnecessary…
JPMorgan might quintiple Bear Stearns bid. →
Important Life Lesson →
Sort of, just and Donald Trump →
I noticed a little while ago that I was using the word “just” and the phrase “sort of” in my writing. All the time, in fact. In my last book, a search and replace removed more than 80 unnecessary…
“We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world,...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb in WIRED
Change Congress Launched →
change-congress.org
There’s also a video of the event at the Press Club on March 20, 2008, here.
WatchDean Kamen’s miracle water distiller at the Colbert Report
How To Read WSJ.com For Free (NWS) →
News Corp. (NWS) boss Rupert Murdoch isn’t dropping the pay wall for the Wall Street Journal’s Web site any time soon. But that doesn’t mean you can’t steal it!
How’s that? WSJ.com has…
The price of a security will always adapt to the information that is available at a given moment, because traders, in their aim for wealth, will trade with regard to unprocessed information, causing the price to correct. Because of this, all information is already processed in a security’s price and a prediction regarding the trend of the price can only be true by chance, unless the...
What you can learn from Arthur C. Clarke →
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
In 1983, I was lucky enough to lead the team that turned one of his novels into a computer game, the first time science fiction…
The new Wordpress version is all about simplicity →
A few weeks ago I wrote that Wordpress isn’t going to be the next social network, as some bloggers like Anne Zelenka claimed. I based this statement on several experiences with co-writers….
Kabinet moet onderzoek doen naar waardig sterven... →
Uit recent onderzoek blijkt dat 63% van de Nederlanders vindt dat mensen die ‘klaar zijn’ met leven op een humane wijze moeten kunnen sterven. Onder kerkelijken is dit percentage ook nog 50%. Het…
What you can learn from Arthur C. Clarke →
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
In 1983, I was lucky enough to lead the team that turned one of his novels into a computer game, the first time science…
Pain Leveling
This post was written by Scott Adams March 18, 2008 but disappeared from his blog the day after. I have therefore copied it here. The url would have been http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/03/pain-leveling.html Back in my corporate days, I had a coworker who seemed to be happy almost all of the time. He didn’t do much actual work yet he was paid well, and he didn’t let the...
Would You Pay An Extra $100 For An... →
Paying $1 per song on iTunes is starting to get old. And Apple knows it. It made sense to start with something simple to establish the legal digital music market. But now consumers are ready for…
Take risks only...
When these conditions are met: The risks are acceptable. The potential beneficial outcome times its odds is greater than the opportunity cost plus the negative risk times its odds.
Why bother having a resume? →
In the last few days, I’ve heard from top students at Cornell and other universities about my internship. It must have been posted in some office or on a site, because each of the applications…
Pain Leveling →
Back in my corporate days, I had a coworker who seemed to be happy almost all of the time. He didn’t do much actual work yet he was paid well, and he didn’t let the little things get to him. The…
“No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans...”
– David Hume (via Nassim Taleb > Malcolm Gladwell)
Malcolm Gladwell profiles Nassim Nicholas Taleb. →
The Tale of the Mexican Fisherman. →
Why bother having a resume? →
In the last few days, I’ve heard from top students at Cornell and other universities about my internship. It must have been posted in some office or on a site, because each of them is just a…
A Chartist's View of the Markets Today →
Funny — even if somewhat insider-ish — graphic follows of a chartists’ view (complete with Irwin Allen-style collapsing candles) of how tremors are affecting financial markets: [via …
